Last week, social networking site Facebook has announced that around 600,000 accounts get hacked in one day. The company then decided to add the “Trusted Friends” feature, a new security feature that will help prevent attacks that allows users to choose 3 to 5 friends that they can trust. Now, a hacker group warned that this may actually backfire. The Hackers...
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A mysterious hacker broke into the YouTube channel of Microsoft, posting solicitations for sponsorships and deleting all of its videos. Tech news site Geekwire reported that the hacker uploaded some videos soliciting advertisements for the hacked channel, but was removed as of Monday morning. It replaced the videos with others that claim the company is holding a contest. “The...
After the massive breach that took place last April, Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) still continued to get people to spend money and attract new users. Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer announced the news during a conference at the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. “I’m pleased to tell you that the PSN is more secure and better than ever,”...
The Pwnie “Most Epic Fail” award: the award that Sony did not want to win. Last Wednesday, the “Most Epic Fail” award was given to Sony at this year’s Pwnie Awards, which was held at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. According to the event organizers, the Pwnies (security researchers’ equivalent to the Oscars) honor “the achievements...
David Beckham’s official website was attacked on Sunday by hackers hours after his wife Victoria Beckham gave birth to their first daughter. While Beckham was busy celebrating the birth of ‘Harper Seven,’ a mysterious hacker left a message on the famous footballer’s homepage. The hacker of davidbeckham.com posted a photo of a dog attempting to eat...
Members of the internet activist group Anonymous stole thousands of encrypted US military passwords from contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and posted them on the internet. The documents the hack group released on July 11th contained official and personal email addresses and passwords of about 90,000 US military employees. “So in this line of work you’d expect...
After 50 days of chaos filled hacking, the security group Luzsec have announced they are to disband, possibly due to the FBI gaining details of the six members of the group. Lulz Security, or Lulzsec for short, announced their retirement from hacking after several high profile attacks including incursions on Sony, Nintendo, PBS and Codemasters over the past month and a...
Microsoft Corporation said they were saddened by the hack attacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) last April and said that it was damaging to the industry. In an interview with Industry Gamers, Dennis Durkin, the chief operating officer of Xbox, said, “It’s bad for the industry that this has happened to Sony.” “So we don’t wish that upon anybody and...
Sega has become the latest gaming company to fall victim to hackers, over the last month Nintendo, Codemasters and most noticeably Sony have all been hacked. Sega have been quick to inform customers of the problem and promptly shut down their Sega Pass service until the problem has been fixed. What’s been taken? Sega has admitted that email addresses, encrypted passwords...
Last week three top Sony bosses bowed their heads to apologise for the PSN Network being down for so long. They went on to explain the reasoning behind the extended downtime citing security and network checks as the reason for the PSN remaining offline. They also explained that the Playstation Network and Qriocity services would be restored within a week, a promise backed...